Rethinking the Infodemic: Global Health Security and Information Disorder

Information Security and Privacy: Rethinking Governance Models

Concerns about information security and privacy continue to make headlines in the media and rate as serious issues in business and public surveys. Conventional thinking suggests that enhancements to governance models and business practices improve the performance of individual businesses. However, is this enough? Good governance is based on clear rights and responsibilities, and this panel will...

Rethinking the 'global' in global health: a dialectic approach

BACKGROUND Current definitions of 'global health' lack specificity about the term 'global'. This debate presents and discusses existing definitions of 'global health' and a common problem inherent therein. It aims to provide a way forward towards an understanding of 'global health' while avoiding redundancy. The attention is concentrated on the dialectics of different concepts of 'global' in th...

Global Information Security Factors

The Internet has changed security and because the Internet is borderless, security threats are now on a global scale. In this paper, the authors explore the global nature of information security from the perspectives of corporate professionals. Through an empirical study with corporate professionals, who have first-hand information security knowledge, the authors confirm that the proposed knowl...

Rethinking global health research: towards integrative expertise

The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health stresses the importance of inter-disciplinary, inter-ministerial and inter-sectoral working. This challenges much of our current research and postgraduate research training in health, which mostly seeks to produce narrowly focused content specialists. We now need to compliment this type of research and research training, by offering alternative ...

The roles of veterinarians in meeting the challenges of health and welfare of livestock and global food security